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@noonessleep “...a greater assimilative space”

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 19 Jul 2021

@thebafflermag Sublime, from @chebhocine on Said, echoing the trans-cultural, cross-fertilizing hermeneutics of the contemporary poet-translator, Clayton Eshleman: “the antiphonal traffic of translation, for me, opens up a greater assimilative space than monolingual reading.”

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Quoted by@jbralston @SST_Theology 4/ Ultimately, perhaps religious differences exist _precisely_ so that we may transcend them or, rather, they provide planetary culture with a critical bridge, a ‘greater assimilative space’ for the transcendent breaking-in of eternity into history. Diversity, our very salvation.